Direc­tor

J.L. Oben­haus

Born August 29, 1940

I was raised in a Chris­t­ian home…Southern Bap­tist dur­ing the school year and Methodist dur­ing the sum­mers. Miss­ing Church and Sun­day School was not an option. I spent about about one and a half years in Venezuela dur­ing ele­men­tary School.

I became a short term mis­sion­ary start­ing in Mex­ico in the 1990s con­tin­u­ing into the 2000’s when I moved to Colum­bus, Texas. I met Brenda in 2005 when she came to the First Bap­tist Church of Colum­bus. In 2007, I was con­victed of a need in Mozam­bique. I made my first trip to Mozam­bique in May of 2007 for three months. I learned about stor­ing food–about 420 tons of it and mak­ing bricks. In 2009, I made a Church build­ing trip to Canada, then in 2011, I returned to Mozam­bique in Jan­u­ary for three months–distributing food this time.

My pri­mary con­cern is evan­ge­lism and dis­ci­pling new believ­ers. Orphans Unlim­ited pro­vides a won­der­ful exam­ple of God’s love work­ing through Chris­tians in Mozambique.

My favorite scrip­tures are James 1:22 through James 2:26. Brenda is one tough lady who knows and shows God’s power and pro­tec­tion and she is the ener­gizer bunny–runs on less sleep than any­one I know.

 

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